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Notice of the character and direction of the electric force of the Gymnotus

by: Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867; Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, former owner. DSI; Collin, W., binder. DSI; Royal Society (Great Britain); Burndy Library, donor. DSI

Publication date: 1839

Topics: Cypriniformes, Electric organs in fishes, Electricity, Electricity

Publisher: [London : The Royal Society]

Collection: smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Volume: c. 1

Item Size: 38.9M

Title and series from caption

Extracted from the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, v. 129

"Received November 15,--Read December 6, 1838."

Published January 1, 1839

Includes bibliographical references

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Dibner Library has 2 copies

SCDIRB c. 1 (QC530 .F22 1832 SCDIRB; bound-with, no barcode) is no. 15 in a volume with binder's title: Experimental researches in electricity, 1832-1848

SCDIRB c. 1 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Herald of Science no. 64

SCDIRB c. 1 has a later blue cloth binding with gilt-tooled black embossed-cloth spine label

SCDIRB c. 2 (QC530 .F22 1839 SCDIRB; barcode 39088016912461) is no. 1 in a volume with binder's title: Electrical and magnetic researches of Michael Faraday, 1838-1851

SCDIRB c. 2 has bookplates: 1. Michael Faraday; 2. Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB c. 2 has a later full vellum binding with gilt-lettered spine, with printed binder's label on front free endpaper: W. Collin, Koenigl. Hofbuchbinder, Berlin